Speaker 1: Britt Laura, you know that at the best of times,
Speaker 1: I'm a little health anxious. I've got health anxiety, and
Speaker 1: you know, normally I love to tell a joke. I
Speaker 1: love to be funny. But I have a brain condition
Speaker 1: which I've spoken about on the show, and I've had
Speaker 1: a listener's message with me. I've actually it's beautiful. I
Speaker 1: have a condition called Chiari malformation, and it's congenital. You're
Speaker 1: born with it. Like the base of my brain, the
Speaker 1: cerebellum is falling through my spinal cord, blocking the flow
Speaker 1: of brain fluid, ruins my central nervousystem. It's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: I've had mothers of kids that have this condition message
Speaker 1: me and go I heard you picking up the girls
Speaker 1: and they've got this condition, and keep you.
Speaker 2: Talking about it.
Speaker 1: And they were so excited to hear it in the
Speaker 1: car because then neurosurgeon goes it's a rare condition, no
Speaker 1: one has it, and then they get in the car
Speaker 1: and they hear it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's also nice to see that somebody that when
Speaker 3: you're told that your child is born with something, you
Speaker 3: automatically think the worst is going to happen, even though
Speaker 3: you hope for the best. So it's nice to be like,
Speaker 3: look at this normal, successful person that's living with this totally.
Speaker 1: But something that I wanted to talk about was was
Speaker 1: the I don't know how to even explain it. My
Speaker 1: neurologists calls it wearable anxiety. We all have Apple watches.
Speaker 1: We even now have smart rings. You've got a whoop.
Speaker 4: Whip on me right now. Yeah, they're caught an aura,
Speaker 4: the one that people wear.
Speaker 2: It's like your ring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it might look lovely, but they're cool. But
Speaker 1: they monitor our blood pressure. I'm not blood oxygen. They
Speaker 1: monitor our heart rate, they can atual fibrillation, they could
Speaker 1: do temperature, they can do everything. And I've realized in
Speaker 1: the last few weeks that my Apple watch that I
Speaker 1: wear every day is causing me way more harm than
Speaker 1: good my anxiety through the roof. I wake up and
Speaker 1: I have I have like a routine. I check what
Speaker 1: my heart rate was while I slept, I check my
Speaker 1: blood oxygen, I make sure my temperature is okay. I
Speaker 1: could even do an ECG on my wrist that checks
Speaker 1: st No. I know, I know. And I was telling
Speaker 1: my neurosurgeon this, like I've got this and I've got
Speaker 1: this and I've got this any way, you've got wearable anxiety.
Speaker 1: They have seen they think people that wear wearables, up
Speaker 1: to fifty five percent of people that wear like an
Speaker 1: Apple watch or a ring have health anxiety purely because
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: I understand it for people who are like high performance
Speaker 4: athletes who need to track what they're doing and they're like,
Speaker 4: you know, they're counting their macros and their microbes and
Speaker 4: all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But for the average person.
Speaker 4: Like I don't need to know exactly how many steps
Speaker 4: I've done every day. I don't need to know how
Speaker 4: many hours or minutes of sleep I've gotten. And also
Speaker 4: I think it always sets you up for like if
Speaker 4: you firstly, if you think you've had a good night's
Speaker 4: sleep and then your watch tells you you haven't, you
Speaker 4: probably feel more tired. But on the flip side, I
Speaker 4: know when I've had a terrible night sleep because I'm
Speaker 4: up with the kids, and it tells me I've had
Speaker 4: a decent night sleep, and then I feel gas.
Speaker 2: Lily dare you I like them.
Speaker 3: I think it's just for the right person and the
Speaker 3: right type of technology. So I think for a lot
Speaker 3: of people it's super motivating. People want to know the
Speaker 3: steps that they've gotten because they're like, oh, I haven't
Speaker 3: hit what I should be for my baseline, I'm going
Speaker 3: to go do some more. But I think for someone
Speaker 3: like you Mi's you need to do what I do.
Speaker 3: So I wear the Whoop, which doesn't have a screen,
Speaker 3: so it doesn't so for me, I would get the
Speaker 3: anxiety around constantly getting notifications on my wrist that there's
Speaker 3: a message, that there's an emails that I haven't walked
Speaker 3: enough that I have like the constant. I couldn't deal
Speaker 3: with it. But I think for you this could be
Speaker 3: really great. There's no screen, there's no alerts. You forget
Speaker 3: about it until the morning that you wake up and
Speaker 3: you're like, oh I check my sleep, check my heart rate.
Speaker 2: Get on with the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I actually think if you've got an Apple Watch
Speaker 1: hair back your notifications, you can go into settings. I
Speaker 1: do the same thing. I was getting snapchat notifications like
Speaker 1: my mom ping ping, I was getting news headlines, I
Speaker 1: was getting time to stand, I was getting drink more
Speaker 1: water from my water app. It's two much overloading and
Speaker 1: it trains your brain. You know what else it does?
Speaker 1: It like discourages self management, so it makes you rely
Speaker 1: on the results from the watch, and then it actually
Speaker 1: stops me from implementing strategies to make myself actually feel better.
Speaker 1: Oh the watch is telling me this, so I'll listen
Speaker 1: to what the watch says.
Speaker 2: It's also, yeah, why didn't you turn up to that
Speaker 2: really important meeting?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Sorry, my Apple didn't tell me to. You still look
Speaker 2: after your own life.
Speaker 1: Now you have to keep calendar notifications on because then
Speaker 1: you miss the meeting. So please be very careful, but
Speaker 1: just try. Here's my tip. If you're listening to this
Speaker 1: and you've got Apple Watch, are any wearable? Take it
Speaker 1: off for a day or a week and just see
Speaker 1: how you feel.
Speaker 2: Make sure I don't want to see you with that
Speaker 2: on every again.
Speaker 1: I got barious. We'll post a photo of the pickup,
Speaker 1: soeous too much risk for me? William? What are youre
Speaker 1: up next? Beeking at a gorgeous risks? So the boys
Speaker 1: are driving your home and we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, we'll see you tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Are you just picturing? Will What is bare risk? I was?
Speaker 4: You just gave me a real visual and I was like,
Speaker 4: am I doing something perverted?
Speaker 2: I can't tell? Just a wrist just a wrist just
Speaker 2: as
Speaker 1: Good bye bye